Politico. After years of torment, de Blasio sees hope in mayoral-control dealThat stand-off became slightly less heated last week, after charters won new regulations that created alternative paths to certification for charter teachers. The regulations help solve an existential problem for growing charter networks that have struggled to hire enough certified teachers…

Village Voice. Integrating NYC Schools Will Take More Than A ‘Diversity Plan’“The irony of mayoral control in my mind is that after centralizing standards, the curriculum, the assessments, what it left decentralized was student access to schools,” said Amy Stuart Wells, a professor of sociology and education at Columbia University’s Teachers College…